From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>,
christian.couder@gmail.com, gitster@pobox.com,
liu.denton@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: port subcommand 'set-branch' from shell to C
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 14:37:37 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e36c8a0-4f43-79f8-137f-5fd080066af6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200513201737.55778-1-shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com>
-Cc: chriscool@tuxfamily.org (seems redundant; Also, .mailmap confirms
that christian.couder@gmail.com is Christian's preference)
On 14-05-2020 01:47, Shourya Shukla wrote:
>
> The extra '$branch' on line 752 was because of Christian's help after
> reference from TLDP's Parameter Subsitution documentation:
> https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
>
For those who lack the context, during the conversion of the script
Shourya faced an issue where the '--branch' argument did not work as
expected. He described the issue in a private e-mail where Christian
pointed out the following (quoting his reply hoping he doesn't mind):
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:55 PM Christian Couder
<christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In your commit (in submodule.sh line 781) there is:
>>
>> `git ${wt_prefix:+-C "$wt_prefix"} ${prefix:+--super-prefix
>> "$prefix"} submodule--helper set-branch ${GIT_QUIET:+--quiet}
>> ${branch:+--branch} ${default:+--default} -- "$@"`
>
> Actually the issue might come from the above. I think it should use
${branch:+--branch $branch} instead of ${branch:+--branch}.
>
> See: https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html
That's why Shourya mentions the '$branch' as extra. Of course, that's
how it is supposed to be in the first place :)
--
Sivaraam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-14 9:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-13 20:17 [PATCH 1/2] submodule: port subcommand 'set-branch' from shell to C Shourya Shukla
2020-05-13 20:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: Add 'quiet' option in subcommand 'set-branch' Shourya Shukla
2020-05-14 10:15 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-16 5:50 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-16 8:56 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-16 10:40 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-16 11:06 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-14 9:07 ` Kaartic Sivaraam [this message]
2020-05-17 15:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: port subcommand 'set-branch' from shell to C Junio C Hamano
2020-05-17 15:21 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-05-14 10:10 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-16 10:37 ` Shourya Shukla
2020-05-16 10:55 ` Denton Liu
2020-05-17 16:11 ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
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